P'tit Quinquin

2014

France

3h 20min

Directed by: Bruno Dumont

Written by: Bruno Dumont

Cast: Alane Delhaye, Lucy Caron, Bernard Pruvost

Language: French

This slow-moving murder mystery, which begins after human body parts are discovered stuffed inside a cow, is rich with casually relayed social observation and parody. It features youthful rebellion, routine racism, hostility toward authority, and secret lives, and plays brilliantly with the conventions of small screen crime dramas and big screen thrillers.

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A slow-moving murder mystery which rejects resolution and sports a runtime in excess of three-hours hardly sounds like a must-see. Yet P'tit Quinquin is rich with casually relayed social observation and parody, presenting its odd behaviour, incompetent…